Gasoline-service-station globe and support therefor



May 13, 1930. E. A. GlLLlNDER 1,758,660

GASOLINE SERVICE STATION GLOBE AND SUPPORT THEREFOR I Filed Jan. 30,1926 I INVENTOR:

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Patented May 13, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EDGAR A. GILLINDER, FPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GILLINDER & SONS, INC., OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYL- VANIAGASOLINE-SERVICE-STATION GLOBE AND SUPPORT THEREFOR Application filedJanuary 30, 1926. Serial No. 85,068.

My invention relates to a novel manner of rigidly and durably supportingin position a gasoline service station globe whereby the liability ofthe lower neck portion of the globe becoming fractured or loosened fromits support is reduced to a minimum. Gasoline service station globes ofthis general character are approximately two feet in diameter and aregenerally superimposed in inverted position upon the upright casingwhich surrounds the gasoline dispensing mechanism, and being supportedfrom a reduced neck at the bottom of the globe, there has heretoforebeen considerable difiiculty in fixedly and properly sustaining saidlower neck with respect to its support, since a high wind acting uponthe upper exposed cylindrical surface of the globe will tend to vibratethe latter more or less, and in a short time there is a liability offracturing the lower portion of the globe or its neck at or near itspoint of support. In addition, in the globes of the prior art, the setscrews employed have been screwed directly against the lower neckportion, which in practice tends frequently to fracture the same.

In order to obviate the foregoing disadvantages, I mould the globe insuch a way that an integral annular bead is formed upon the lower neckthereof at a point below the junction of the neck with the globe andsimultaneously therewith I mould or form upon the pendant portion of theneck between said annular bead and the bottom terminal of the neck, aseries of integral external screw threads, so that the gasoline serviceglobe, the pendant neck, the annular bead and the screw threads are allformed of glass and integral or in one piece, thus constituting a novelarticle of manufacture.

In addition, I provide a novel construction of a metallic couplingmember, having internal threads, whose pitch conforms to the integralexternal glass threads of the pendant neck of the globe, said couplingbeing provided with a bottom terminal tapering wall against which theset screws of the supporting means are adapted to contact.

By the foregoing construction the relatively heavy inverted gasolinestation globe has its integral lower exteriorly threaded neck portionscrewed into direct engagement with the corresponding interiorlythreaded wall of the metal coupling until the integral annular bead ofthe glass neck contacts with the top of the metallic coupling, whereupona rigid, durable and effective connection is formed between the glassneck of the globe and the metallic coupling, the latter being supportedin any suitable manner upon the top of the standard or casing, whichincloses the gasoline dispensing mechanism.

It further consists of other novel features of advantage andconstruction, all as will be hereinafter set forth and pointed out inthe claim.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention I have shown in theaccompanying drawing forms thereof which are at present preferred by me,since they will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results,although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities ofwhich my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized andthat my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement andorganization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a gasoline service station globeand a coupling therefor, embodying my invention.

Figure 2 represents on an enlarged scale a vertical section on line 22Figure 1.

Figure 3 represents on an enlarged scale, a perspective view of themetallic coupling seen at the lower portion of Figures 1 and 2.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures. Referring to the drawings 1 designates a hollow gasolineservice station globe the same being supported in in verted position andhaving formed integral with the lower portion thereof, a reduced neck 2which is provided with an integral annular bead 3, below which is theeXteriorly threaded portion 4, it being apparent that said parts 1, 2, 3and 4 are cast or moulded out of glass integral or in one piece.

5 designates a metallic coupling employed, the same comprising thevertical wall or portion 6 having the interiorly threaded portion 7whose threads conform to the threads 4 of the glass, the constructionbeing such that when the metallic coupling is assembled with respect tothe glass threads, the top 8 of said coupling will contact with thebottom of the annular glass bead 3. The lower foot or base portion 9 ofthe coupling 5 is conical in shape or provided with a wall whichconverges upwardly and against this wall 9 contact the set screws whichretain the cou pling and its adjuncts in assembled position upon the topof the standard or casing of the gasoline pump.

The globe 1 may be of any usual or conventional construction beinghollow and adapted to be illuminated from within, while the outersurface thereof is provided with any emblems or insignia as iscustomary, to designate the name of the service station.

It will be seen that by making the globe 1, the neck 2, the annular bead3 and the threaded portion 4 integral, the cost of production is reducedto a minimum, and my novel collocation of the integral glass threads 4with the metallic threads 7 of the coupling 5 results in a support forthe globe which is durable and effective and permits the globe to beplaced in the desired position and assembled within a very short spaceof time.

Furthermore in my novel construction there are no set screws havingtheir ends bearing on the glass at any point, since said set screws bearonly on the inclined wall 9 of the metallic coupling, and the tighteningof the same thereon has no effect on the glass or the threaded neck ofthe globe.

It will now be apparent that I have de vised a novel and useful gasolineservice station globe and support therefor which embodies the featuresof advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the inventionand the above description, and while I have, in the present instance,shown and described a preferred embodiment thereof which will give inpractice satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood thatsuch embodiment is susceptible of modification in various particularswithout departing from the spirit or scope of the invention orsacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desired tosecure by Letters Patent is In a device of the character stated, agasoline service station device comprising a globular glass member, anannular portion 2 formed integral with and depending from said globularmember, an annular bead at the bottom of said portion 2, a pendantexternally threaded neck formed integral with said member 2, and aninternally threaded metallic collar adapted to engage said neck, saidcollar having an internal, bottom portion abutting against the loweredge of said neck

